<div class="doc-item" id="doc-1565"><h2 class="doc-item-name">load<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">load</span> &amp; paths)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Loads Clojure code from resources in classpath. A path is interpreted as
  classpath-relative if it begins with a slash or relative to the root
  directory for the current namespace otherwise.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:3717
(defn load
  [&amp; paths]
  (doseq [#^String path paths]
    (let [#^String path (if (.startsWith path &quot;/&quot;)
                          path
                          (str (root-directory (ns-name *ns*)) \/ path))]
      (when *loading-verbosely*
        (printf &quot;(clojure.core/load \&quot;%s\&quot;)\n&quot; path)
        (flush))
;      (throw-if (*pending-paths* path)
;                &quot;cannot load '%s' again while it is loading&quot;
;                path)
      (when-not (*pending-paths* path)
        (binding [*pending-paths* (conj *pending-paths* path)]
          (clojure.lang.RT/load  (.substring path 1)))))))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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